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aversion entertained by native Opium dealers to an institution of that kind.
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It is a well known fact that whilst the trade in foreign bottoms is rigidly watched over by the foreign Inspectorates at the treaty ports, that carried on by native crafts is under the exclusive surveillance of the native Officials, whose inability to completely check the smuggling is to be seen by the part of their countrymen, that native crafts are unequivocally acknowledged.
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...by the proposal to collect the duty on Opium at this place, notwithstanding the fact that their Cruisers guard the harbor...
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Hence we beg leave to submit to Your Excellency that with the diversion of the trade to elsewhere for carrying it in native bottoms, the extreme probability of which we have above alluded to, the benefit, which it is alleged: